[crossfire] mapguide/director question

[Alex Schultz]

Alex Schultz wrote:

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      I don't see how it could be that bad either: I'm testing firing 
     
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      missile swarm (about the most projectile intensive spell there is), 
     
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      into a tight 3 director loop, and my server barely gets up to 2% cpu 
     
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      usage.  Large fireball fired as rapidly as can be by a signal player's 
     
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      natural casting can't push it over 1.3% cpu, and even with all this, 
     
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      the idle cpu usage is 1%. Really, unless lots of monsters are casting, 
     
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      or if it's meteor swarm with it's massive amount of fire, I don't see 
     
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      how this could be a problem.
     
     
And one other curious statistic to add:
I tested level 12 MS with that too, and no matter how much I tried I 
couldn't get cpu usage over 13%, However then I tried with level 112 and 
that brought it up to 100% cpu, due to the increase in number of meteors 
with level.
Overall from what I can tell, directors have little effect on all this 
other than that they prevent if from hitting a exploding/disappearing 
for longer, which could be simulated anyways by casting out into the 
open in bigworld.

Alex Schultz